The only way to know you’re not paranoid is to stay connected at all times so you can rest assured

It wasn’t false modesty exactly You might call it un-unpretentious if you were being pretentious

I am a minimalist if only because it requires minimal effort

Relationships are hard work unless you’ve preemptively announc… that you’re quitting but staying on as a volunteer

As the civil war raged on between too much, too soon and too little, too late I thought I’d found

I told my daughter Let me give you some free advice: You get what you pay for And she said I don’t get it

In France everyone thinks Scotch tape is crap

Soft totalitarianism is like shoes That are just tight enough To remain comfortable If you don’t go anywhere

The ugly duckling Is not a duck But he is a lucky duck

People used to kill the goose that laid the golden egg because they wanted more gold

I believe in God and I believe in liberalism The tension between these two beliefs

You can spend your life trying to understand why bad things happen to good people only to learn that good people do bad things

Life is a movie in which childhood is a sequel to your pare… adulthood is a prequel for your ch… and making it to old age is living in a spin-off

Power is a measure of the capacity to cope with our lack of control and in wielding our power to take control

Mysticism, esoteric knowledge, these are euphemisms for what’s hiding in plain sight: We are not alone